The App will be free for a limited time. Users should be able to sync their Notes back and forth using Microsoft’s Windows Live Skydrive.

This will obviously be competition for MobileNoter, which is an app that allows you to sync notes back and forth through its own solution. To some degree Evernote will face some competition there as well.

Big questions remain in my mind in the wake of the news. How will Ink Notes look on the iPhone? Will there be a separate iPad version in the works?

More when we have it.

UPDATE: And what do you know. It’s available now. My afternoon is about to get crazy with work, so if anyone gives this a try post your thoughts and observations in the comments.

no displayed ink in web version, no displayed ink in iphone version, no displayed ink in WP7 version. If I can’t access my handwritten notes while mobile, what use are they, microsoft? When will you bring it?

I can tell you how pen graphics work in the current version of OneNote on the Web (LIVE)…it doesn’t. When I put a OneNote up there with pen graphics it says doesn’t recognize it and you can’t see what it is.

I’m so happy to hear this – it bodes well for the future of the OneNote. Regarding inking – even the excellent Evernote doesn’t handle ink nearly as well as OneNote (er…desktop) does. Microsoft’s ink architecture is the best and most robust in the consumer market by a long shot in my opinion, and thus is probably is more complicated to implement. Most other inking, Evernote included, is likely literally just vector marks on the page – easy to implement anywhere.

The lack of ink is definitely a bummer. However, this is definitely nice enough to earn its way into a finalist in my competition for a quick and easy to-do manager. There are lots of them out there but all the ones I find are either too simple, too complicated, too gaudy to look at, or too not-free. This looks to be quick and easy to use, and the ability to pass the lists onto my laptop instantly is a big plus. While it’s not got ink support, as a text based app it seems pretty solid.